MUS 527SEM - Music and Modernity

The seminar is concerned with showing how music has continued to respond and adapt during the long-term history of modernity. Topics that will be addressed include music’s relationship to capitalism, politics, race, the postcolonial condition, globalism, cosmopolitanism, postmodernism, and modern conceptions of individual artistic expression. It is intended to train students in thinking about music within a very long historical time frame.

Credits: 4